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@atten tat atitt @ffice GEORGE H. AY-LWOR'IH,-OF BRIGHTON, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 64,828, dated IVay 21, 1867.

IMPROVEMI IN HAY-PRESS.

TOiALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: y

Be it known that I, G. H. Antwort-JTM, of Brighton, in the county of Macoupin, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements for Pressing and Baling Hay; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactV description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying*drawings, nnikingpart of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur. l i y i To enable others skilled in the art to constructand nsetinyi'n'vention, I will proceed to describe it, and the. manner of its operation.

Figure 1 represents a top plan vien'. Figure 2 represents a transverse vertical section on line a: r, iig. l. I first construct'a light oblong frame, ft, in shape similar to a wagon-box frame, leaving openings extending along its sides nearly its entire length. Immediately opposite these openings I place two shafts, In e, one

opposite each opening, and passing from end to end and through each end of the frame a. Upon each of these shafts I cut a screw-thread, and to their ends al e I attach eog-wheelsfg. Under the bottom of the frame I place anotheishaft, a, extending from end to end of the frame, and project-ing sufficiently farto place upon it a pinion, 1', so that it may work in the cog-wheels f y, and also to have attached to it an. arm for the application of the motive power. I then make a follower or sliding partition, 7.", and so construct it that a portion of cach end will pass through the openings in the sides of the frame. These ends I attach to nuts I m, which are placed upon the screws b c. I

In operating my press, I place the sliding partition lc at oneend and fill the other with hay, then, by means of a horse or other motive power attached to the shaft t, the cog-wheclsf and g are turned, and with them the screws Zta. As the screws turn the nuts Z and m are moved, and with them the sliding partition le, which presses the hay into a compact bale. While this bale is beingl pressed I put hay into the other end, which is ready to be pressed as soon as the first bale is finished. This I do by simply reversing the motion of the horse or inot-ivepower, and thus causing the sliding partition to move in an opposite direction. And in this way, by filling first one end and then the other, I am enabled to bale hay cheaply and rapidly.' 'lhis machine I make sufficiently light as to bc portable, so that it may he easily carried into the field, to the haystack, or wherever desired. It is siinple, cheap, convenient, and well suited for purpose designed, a portable hay-press.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, is- I claim a hay-press consisting of the box a and the -sliding partition c, operated by means of the screws a L, the whole constructed and arranged as herein shown and described.

i GEORGE I-I. AYLWORTH.

Witnesses WILLIAM C. MERRILL, O. A. CHASE. 

